Oregon was a wonderful time indeed, and the wedding that prompted the trip was one of the best I’ve ever attended. The highs were high, the lows were maudlin, the drinking was epic, and the apologies were heartfelt. Congratulations and all the best to Henry and Jen, who I hope will enjoy a lifetime of […]

“Can we go to Wendy’s instead of Burger King?” I overheard a woman ask her friends a moment ago. One of them shrugged and nodded, so she threw her hands in the air and shouted “Yay! Wendy’s!” Well, I’m sorry, but that won’t do. Everybody’s got a right to their opinion, and the fact that […]

The “Obama as Hitler” thing has run its course. We can all agree on that, right? There’s a graphic making the rounds on the web at the moment, which you may have seen, that articulates the silliness of the Hitler angle better than I ever could. But that’s nothing compared to the new “Joker Obama” […]

Kate and I are flying down to Oregon tomorrow. One of the best dudes in my life is getting married on the weekend in the bride’s hometown of Grants Pass, and we figured we might as well throw some time in Portland into the mix and make a week of it. Frankly, I’m glad we […]

So it turns out that Family, the sophomore album from Montreal’s Think About Life, is the most fun album I’ve heard in a long while. From the opening track “Johanna” to the driving closer “Life of Crime,” it’s a funky, heavy album from a band that sounds much bigger than a trio. Family is a […]

The schedule for next month’s edition of Everyone’s a DJ was announced earlier today. It’s a really great bill, and it came together a lot more quickly than usual. Maybe the summer slump is finally, finally over. With September booked, we’re now accepting bookings for the rest of 2009, and I’m glad to say they’re […]

I dropped into Pages on the way home from visiting some old friends tonight. I’d known for a little while now that they’re closing on Monday, but I didn’t realize until I came through the door that it would be the last time I’d ever shop there. The shelves are mostly bare, and there are […]

My old friend Matt Hartley, who recently made the move from the Globe and Mail to the Financial Post, has chronicled the latest chapter in the story of that Liskula Cohen, the model who sued Google. Last week, the New York Supreme Court ordered Google to reveal the identity of a blogger who had said […]

Earlier tonight, the good people at Blog Action Day sent an email out about their third annual event on Thursday, 15 October 2009. Because the project has grown beyond expectations in just two years, a site called Change.org has agreed to take it over from this point forward. The subject for this year’s event hasn’t […]

Wilco is another band that I waited too long to get into. Until they performed “Hate It Here” on Saturday Night Live last year, I had never even heard them play – in spite of the fact that fellow music nerds like my friend Peter have been singing their praises for years. So a couple […]